Robert Frost speaking on campus : excerpts from his talks, 1949-1962

Offering insight into the poet's lesser-known contributions as a teacher and lecturer, a collection of excerpts from forty-six of his presentations includes such topics as "What I think I'm doing when I write a poem" and "The future of the world."

Getting up things to say for yourself --
Where poetry comes in --
Handling figures of speech --
"Anxiety for the Liberal Arts" --
A book side to everything --
Not freedom from, but freedom of --
Of rapid reading and what we call "completion" --
No surprise to me, no surprise to anybody else --
Pieces of knitting to go on with --
Everything in the world comes in pairs --
My kind of fooling --
About "the great misgiving" --
Wondering how convictions are had --
Something you live by till you live by something else --
Some gamble--
something of uncertainty --
The future of the world --
Hang around for the refinement of sentiment --
What I think I'm doing when I write a poem --
Of the "elect" and the "elected" --
Fall in love at sight --
Thinking about generalizations --
"In on the ground floor" --
A certain restlessness --
About thinking and of perishing to shine --
A gentler interest in the fine things --
Let's say bravely--
that poetry counts --
I'll tell you a little about my walks.

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"Frost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned a master-poet by world standards."-Robert GravesLeer más

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"Starred Review. The great-some say greatest-American poet was at one time so shy that he couldn't be induced to lecture or read in public at all. Yet in his later years, he became a frequent and extravagantly beloved speaker from whom wisdom about life and poetry flowed with conversational warmth and relaxation. In these excerpts from talks given to 'town-and-gown' audiences (college denizens and outsiders) during his last 13 years, he is golden... at the heart of his message is the Socratic and Emersonian injunction to know oneself or, as he puts it in the very first talk here, 'getting up something to say for yourself.'" -- Ray OlsonLeer más